great rift adventure 1: islands in the rift has a ship that uses them. Unfortunately (for this discussion) it’s a jump-1 ship, so in this case it doesn’t matter how they work, but the info text had this: Rather than using collapsible fuel bladders or demountable tanks, Perfect Stranger has been reft...

I’ve been having very similar thoughts, and have been meaning to post them but never gotten around to do it. I too was surprised to see that sandcasters seem to do nothing in fleet combat, and have also wondered if chaff is supposed to give -1 per cloud or per canister. Having it Per canister lets s...

Well, I’ve only taken part in one Kickstarter campaign before myself, and that was the Great Rift campaign. How it worked that time was that when the campaign was over, a survey was sent out to everyone, where we were asked to give our addresses and such - and I assume it’ll work the same this time :)

I’m actually surprised no one’s asked for classic 2D maps for all the Rift ships yet, that usually pops up :) I guess people are getting used to the isometric views, and also (at least in my case) I’ve noticed that newer deckplans have much more info on them than the early iso ones. One important di...

Some thoughts regarding storage and suiting up with battledress.. there’s this image that I’m sure everyone’s seen: https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/gallery/mag/battledress/suiting.jpg . In Mercenary second edition, p.73, there is however an image of a suit of armour in open mode, that ma...

Lots of great input so far, thanks everyone! I thought I'd add some comments, clarifications and thoughts of my own. First of all, yes Battledress is expensive. So are G/Carriers, Grav tanks, APCs and other support vehicles that infantry are traditionally dependent upon. Battledress-equipped troops ...

Yup, yes we did :) Consider that a benefit of doing these larger projects through Kickstarter. We can have awesome sets! Feel free to use it for other things though. Awesome! Kickstarter seems to be the way to do things, if projects keep evolving like this one did :) And thank you, I do intend to u...

Gauss rifles are powerful enough, most of the time. There are occasions when one want to go battledress-hunting however... As for APDS ammo, perhaps it’d be better to imagine it as something else, but with the same stats as APDS? Or... an idea, which also concerns the incendiary question... gauss bu...

Wait, are you saying we have sci-fi monster movie to play out?! Be still my heart! We have indeed :) (Spoilers for the adventure below) And what a monster! This marvelous blend of Flood (Halo) and the fungal infestation from “the last of us” is a perfect antagonist and a great source for zombie-lik...

In the classic Mercenary , Gauss rifle ammunition was described as a 4 mm, 4 g round, with both an armor-piercing core and a soft sheath for stopping power. So by that description it's already armor-piercing. It is indeed, and the current version has AP 5 to represent this. There are however situat...

Maybe the Thalassans aren't in control at all. Maybe the bio-engineered plant matter became sentient and now controls the people of the planet. Hey, I like that idea, and think I will borrow it -- probably not to the extent that the plant matter has taken over the world, but maybe as a nasty surpri...